Roadmap Meeting March 17th 2017 11:30 am AST

• Chair: Melissa Anez
• Notes: David Wilcox

Per: Schedule

• Attending: Melissa, Nick, David, Carell, Danny, Diego, Gavin, Jonathan, Jennifer, Donald, Jordan, Kirsta, Mark B, Mark J, Rosie

Agenda

Old Business

• Previous meeting notes
• Islandora 7.x-1.9 release
  • Made some minor changes to release VM
  • Had a release call yesterday
    • Many new JIRA tickets and pull requests
  • Allowing 2 weeks to test before RC2
  • April 28 final release
• LSAP Review
  • Approved by Board of Directors
  • Updated on islandora.ca
  • Committers working on how things will work in Islandora Labs
    • Want to maintain standards but encourage more participation
• Travis users for Islandora
  • We are using a free version of this service so we have limits
  • On big merges this causes problems
  • Travis is currently associated with multiple users - should just be one Islandora user
    • Nick: this won't work. Problems were the result of a perfect storm around code freeze time
  • Editing many files (e.g. licenses) on the day of the code freeze will cause problems
  • Some merges may need to wait a few days when we have a code freeze or Travis will break
  • We can cancel builds if there are problems
  • As we approach a release we should talk to the community about how best to mitigate these issues
    • This will be added to the agenda for the next committers call
• Update on LAC theses harvesting
  • Moving (slowly) toward a community specification
  • University of Alberta is the largest Hydra site in Canada and they are scrambling to try to fulfill the requirements
    • Mark Jordan is coordinating with them

New Business

• Islandora Slack?
  • Islandora could get Slack for free with the Foundation's non-profit status
  • Nick concerned with code of conduct
  • Need to establish owners
  • Why is Slack better than our current options?
    • Skype versions are a problem to keep up with
    • Slack is convenient
  • Need a public archive
    • We are currently archiving everything with IRC
    • Slackarchive is an option: http://slackarchive.io
  • Free Conference Call line is currently available: https://www.freeconferencecallhd.com/
    • Has been reliable
    • Includes international numbers
  • Melissa will survey the community to see if there is interest in Slack
  • This group will continue using Skype for now as it is a closed group and we make use of the Skype chat functionality

Interest Group Updates

• Documentation IG (Melissa)
  • Has not met
• Dev Ops (Gavin)
  • Met in early March
  • Will meet again April 12
• Metadata IG (Jennifer): The MIG met on March 13, 2017. The notes are now online. Paul van Schayck presented and showed a demo of his module Ontology Autocomplete. For the next meeting, we'll be working through issues from the Authorities and Tools subgroups.
• IR interest group (Bryan)
  • Has not met
• Security Interest Group (Rosie)
  • Has not met

CLAW

• Jon Green is now a committer
• Slowing pushing forward
• Getting contributions from UTSC
• Jonathan did some great work with web tokens
  • Authentication can now be done with tokens instead of the Drupal filter
• Lots of maintenance on the CLAW GitHub org
  • Cleaned up the repos
• Updating docs
  • Adding pull request templates
• Please contribute to the Fedora API specification: http://fedora.info/spec/
  • In particular, we need input on how to handle externally referenced content
  • Rosie is concerned about how to contribute to the spec
  • This will be added to a future CLAW call

Islandora Camps

• Islandoracon
  • Working on Hackfest
  • Trying to encourage non-developers to attend as well
  • Also taking the opportunity to showcase CLAW and encourage contributions
• iCampEU
  • Registration is open
  • 5 signups so far
  • European camps are always harder to pull off due to higher travel costs and lower attendance
  • Break even at 25 people
  • Good opportunity for Europeans to attend an Islandora event without crossing the ocean

Round Table

• Carell
  • Wants to commit one developer day per week to the CLAW project
• Danny
  • Working on code and GitHub
• David
  • Nothing for today
• Diego
  • Working on the release
  • Trying to answer questions on the mailing list
  • Finishing testing for CLAW at METRO
    • Moving data between Fedora 3 and 4
  • Testing S3 backend for large binaries
    • Using caching and S3 event system
  • Also testing Solr 6 with Islandora 7.x
• Donald
  • No updates
• Gavin
  • Currently working on project using Diego's IMI tool
  • Attending a conference tomorrow to promote Islandora: https://nerdsummit.org/
• Jonathan
  • Working on CLAW 1 or 2 days per week
• Jordan
  • Nothing to report
• Kirsta
  • Nothing to report
• Mark
  • Experimenting with integrating Islandora into existing workflows
    • Automated ingests (put stuff in a watched folder, gets transformed by MIK and pushed into Islandora)
    • Extracting disk images for preservation but not access. Putting into Islandora with restrictions and fewer derivatives (since they are not needed for access)
• Nick
  • Anna St. Onge with replace Nick on the roadmap calls when he leaves for sabbatical in June
  • An Apache Struts vulnerability was identified for Fedora 4
  • Patch release will be out shortly
• Rosie
  • Working on exporting from Islandora
    • UPEI had a big push to put everything into Fedora repos
    • Lots of things to identify - students working on projects have moved on
    • Need to have timeframes for how long things will be kept
  • Transforming VRACore into MODS
  • Pydio sync tool has been updated to support Pydio 7
  • Working on getting things harvested by LAC
• Will
  • Nothing to report

Next meeting: March 31st

• Chair: David Wilcox
• Notes: Nick Ruest